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March, '03] entomological news. 



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An Interesting New Chrysotus. 



[Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Texas. No. 42.] 



By a. L. Melander. 



Chrysotlis philtrum sp. nov. 3/a/c. — Metallic green species with yel- 

 low legs. Head large, hemispherical, wider than the thorax : eyes 

 large, narrowly contiguous below the antennae, facets moderate, gradu- 

 ally larger below. Antennae short, yellow, the first two joints short, 

 simple, transverse, first joint bare, second and third joints bushy with 

 black hairs, the terminal hairs equal in length to the third joint ; third 

 joint slightly compressed, rounded conical, short, equalling the length of 

 the other two joints together, its terminal black arista as long as the eye- 

 height, sparsely beset with short hairs, the distances between the apical 

 ones slightly exceeding the length of these hairs. Face obliterated be- 

 low the antennae, becoming elongate-triangular lower down, small, black, 

 vertex broad, with violel-blue-green reflections, the two ocellar bristles 

 strong, recurved, an occipital incurved bristle present on each side of the 

 vertex, postoculars wanting, postocular cilia wanting, the sparse hairs 

 dusky below. Occiput with a violet tinge. Proboscis short, black, con- 



C/t yysatus philtrum . 

 The middle tarsus and the head are twisted to show the ventral aspect. 



cealed beneath the base of the enormously dilated and flattened, subu- 

 late palpi, palpi two and one-half times as long as wide, literally projecting 

 beyond the margin of the head, entirely flat, the base, rounded, broad, 

 black in front, the outer half white, excised in front, lanceolate, the blunt 

 tip twisted, the entire palpus covered with fine silvery sericeous hairs 



